>>Hilmar,
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>>It's not as easy as you describe because record number would change from 1000 to 500. Now if another user had stored record number 1000 in the variable lnRecno and later issued GOTO (lnRecno) he'll get eaither Record out of range error or will be moved to the new record added instead of one moved to the position 500. That's not something you would want to happen.
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>That's right. I didn't think about this issue.

Regardless, it would be uncomplicated, even if to do so took simply leaving the record's 'space' in a specific way to signify that it is fully ignoreable by all VFP processes pending a PACK or some new more efficient operation to handle just those. Anyone who today stores a record number in a record does not do PACKs anyway, that's for sure.

I think it's wish #101 that alludes to a capability giving a result similar to what I'm getting at here.

cheers